The relationship between women's standing in the public sphere and their activism is problematized. Women's activism is shaped by strategic choices to locate either in public or in private spaces. Publicity and privacy are reconceptualized in ways
Subaltern empowerment in the Geoweb : tensions between publicity and privacy
This article examines subaltern empowerment in the Geoweb through the tensions between publicity and privacy. First, it analyses the theoretical lineage of empowerment work in Critical GIS and geoweb literature. Second, it uses work with the Maijuna
areas related to the importance of both privacy and publicity in achieving political empowerment through the geoweb.
Geographical information system ; Knowledge ; Privacy ; Risk ; Social geography ; Social network ; Students
This study examines college students’ consumption and contribution of geographic information through Location-enabled online tools and/or services as well as their perception of risk and privacy. It was found that the consumption frequency
is positively related to their knowledge in GIS and geography, but their GI contribution is not related. However, this relationship does not translate into students’ concern about potential privacy disclosure or their willingness to share personal location
GIS and the technological family associated with them raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. The systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. Their use
The rise of tourism is one of the effects of modernization in this Islamic state. Once focused on cities, tourism is spreading into rural sectors. Muslim customs, such as the desire for family privacy, are accommodated in these developments.―(DWG)
Cultural landscape ; Daily life ; Domestic space ; Garden ; Great Britain ; Landscape ; Mass-Observation Archive ; United Kingdom ; gardens ; narrative ; ordinary landscapes ; privacy
-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions
between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives offer privileged access to a site of intense engagement and carefully guarded privacy, yet with varying levels of attachment. The garden
Baltimore ; Citizenship ; Community ; Ethnography ; Maryland ; Privacy ; Queer ; Sexuality ; Social life ; Social network ; United States of America ; Urban society